Quoting James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:57, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I recently picked up a second-hand laptop (IBM Thinkpad 570). I installed > Woody > > per the usual and found that APM seemed to work fine for putting the laptop > to > > sleep. However, when issuing the "halt" command to shut the system down, > it > > would only go as far as saying "Power Down", i.e. I would have to > physically > > flip the power switch to completely shut it down. > > > > Completely unrelated, I installed Jamie's backported Gnome2.2 stuff, which > went > > fine. This time when issuing "halt", the laptop completely powered off on > its > > own, much to my surprise. > > > > So my question is what is in the Gnome2.2 stuff that would have fixed this > on > > its own, and, more importantly, is it a package that can be installed and > used > > independently from Gnome (say I want to remove Gnome completely and use > > something like Blackbox for better performace, but still want the system to > be > > able to completely power off on its own). > > Sounds like you had the battery status applet loaded, which would load > the apm module, which would allow the power down. If not using gnome, > just make sure that apm gets started (/etc/init.d/apmd start should be > all there is to it). > > Jamie > > >
Thanks! Turns out it *was* simply the apm modules being loaded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
